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Verifying that our scheduling constraints implement the C11 standard

As explained in Section 4.4, we have used the Alloy tool to verify that our scheduling constraints are sufficient to implement the memory consistency model defined by the C11 standard. In the alloy folder, we provide the Alloy model files that we used. The first four are taken from Wickerson et al.'s work on comparing memory consistency models; the fifth is new.

question.als encodes our scheduling constraints, and several queries for checking that these scheduling constraints are strong enough to enforce the constraints required by the C11 memory consistency model.

To reproduce our result, save the five files above into the same directory, download Alloy, open question.als in Alloy, and run the queries contained within.

Verifying the lock-free circular buffer

As explained in Section 5.1, we have used the CppMem tool to verify that our case-study application, a lock-free circular buffer, is free from data races. In order to make the verification feasible, we removed the while-loop, replaced the array variable with a scalar, removed some unimportant local variables, and simplified the increment function. Below, we give the actual code that we verified.

To reproduce our result, paste the code above into CppMem's web interface and click Run. The tool should report (after a couple of minutes) that the code has 92 candidate executions, of which two are consistent, neither of which exhibit data races.

Motivating Examples

We provide the actual code that displays coherence and message-passing violation in the motivating-examples folder, as described in Section 2 of our paper. These examples have been tested and verified on LegUp's VM. For convenience, we have included the output logs of each experiment for viewing. We include a "transcript" of the execution and a schedule trace, which can be visualised using LegUp's scheduleviewer.

Experimental Data

We conduct two experiments (chaining and bursting) on LegUp, for which we provided raw data on all seven design points. These results are:

results/chaining.csv contains the raw data for the chaining experiment.

results/bursting.csv contains the raw data for the bursting experiment.
The version number are from 1 to 7 for Unsound, SC, OMP criticals, SC atomics, Weak atomics, Mutexes and OMP atomics respectively.

We conduct two experiments (chaining and division) on LegUp and a commercial HLS tool. The version number from 1 to 9 for Unsound, SC, SC pipelined, Weak, Weak pipelined, Coarse-grain Locks, Unsound Pipelined, Fine-grain locks and Atomic locks. These results are under results/legup and results/hls respectively.

Contact

Please contact us at n_dot_ramanathan14_at_imperial_dot_ac_dot_uk for any problems/bugs.